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now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...
none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...
doing so can enrich someone in a position of responsibility. The student will want to discuss their opinion of these four stateme...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...
This research paper offers a discussion of the characteristics of civilian review boards and internal affairs as methods for addre...
and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...
As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...
no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...
same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...
for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...
in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...
and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at use of symbolism in Great Expectations. The use of London itself as a symbol of corr...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...